Institute Calendar
May 2013
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
8:00am
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PhD seminar
Design of Nanoparticles that Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier by Receptor Mediated Transcytosis
Devin Wiley,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Capturing Protein Folding Dynamics with Time-Resolved Luminescence Spectroscopy
Nicole B. Ford,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Gray Group,
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bray Theory Workshop
On Blame and Reciprocity: Theory and Experiments
Andrew Schotter,
Professor of Economics,
New York University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Regimes of aerosol-stratocumulus cloud-climate interaction
Chris Bretherton,
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Applied Mathematics,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar - CANCELLED/TO BE RESCHEDULED
New Approaches to Catalytic C–F and C–C Bond Formation
Abigail G. Doyle,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar
A Wireless Cyber-Physical System Framework for Enhancing the Resiliency of Civil Infrastructure Systems
Jerry Lynch,
Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ,
University of Michigan,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
4D Microscopy of Cell-Signaling Dynamics in Developing Embryos
Antti Lignell,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cai Group,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Bioengineering Seminar
"Engineered temperature compensation in a synthetic gene oscillator"
Matthew Bennett,
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology,
Rice University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Behavioral Social Neuroscience Seminar
Self-Control Failure and Its Repair in Addiction
Warren Bickel,
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech-Huntington Seminar in American Studies
Aesthetic Misbehavior in Medieval Drama
Andrea Denny-Brown,
Associate Professor of English,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineering single-cell bioanalytic processes to evaluate complex cellular systems
J. Christopher Love,
Latham Family Career Development Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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12:00am
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6:00pm
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8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, May 3rd, 2013
9:30am
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12:30pm
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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2:00pm
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5:00pm
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2:00pm
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TAPIR Seminar
Three-Dimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Sean Couch,
Research Associate,
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Measurement of Velocity and Concentration in Complex Turbulent Flows
John Eaton,
Professor,
Center for Turbulence Research, Mechanical Engineering,
Stanford University,
3:30pm
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6:30pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Modeling Aspects of Hydrodesulfurization and the Development of a [CCC]X3-Donor Pincer Ligand
Aaron Sattler,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
The Mechanics of Romantic Thinking: Point and Lever Circa 1800
Jocelyn Holland,
Associated Professor,
UC Santa Barbara,
5:30pm
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7:30pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Ohanian Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, May 4th, 2013
12:00am
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5/5
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12:00am
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5/5
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10:00am
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1:00pm
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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4:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Dongelyan Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Kenareki Wedding Party
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
6:00pm
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8:00pm
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8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, May 6th, 2013
9:00am
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6:30pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
"Tissue Engineering Active Biological Machines: Bio-inspired Design, Directed Self-assembly, and Characterization of a Primitive Heart"
Hesham Azizgolshani,
Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Aerospace Seminar
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission for Earth Systems Monitoring
Dr. Dana Entekhabi,
MIT,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Label-free single-molecule detection using microtoroid optical resonators
Judith Su,
graduate student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics ,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL TIME**
Tracking Multiphase Physics: Geometry, Foams, and Thin Films
James Sethian,
Mathematics,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Bioimaging at the nanoscale -- Single-molecule and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
Xiaowei Zhuang,
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Professor of Physics,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Cooling Through Optimal Control of Quantum Evolution
Dr. Armin Rahmani,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Closure of the global overturning circulation through the Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans
Lynne D. Talley,
Distinguished Professor,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
UCSD,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Imaging Metal-Induced Oxidative Stress: Lanthanides to the Rescue
Valerie C. Pierre,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar in Political Economy
Evaluating Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap: A Unified Econometric Approach with Microfoundations
Brian Knight,
Professor of Economics,
Brown University,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
High redshift starburst galaxies revealed by SPT, ALMA, and gravitational lensing
Joaquin Vieira,
Caltech,
6:00pm
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7:00pm
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
10:30am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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IST Lunch Bunch
A Fresh Perspective: Learning to Sparsify for Detection in Massive Noisy Sensor Networks
Matthew Faulkner,
Computer Science,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar
Stochastic Choice and Hedging (joint project with Marina Agranov)
Pietro Ortoleva,
Associate Professor of Economics,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Quantum sparse-graph codes for future quantum computers
Leonid Pryadko,
Associate Professor,
University of California, Riverside,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Elucidating a New Role of RNA in Co-Translational Protein Targeting
Kuang Shen,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Shan Group,
Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED General Biology Seminar
Mutation, drift and the origin of subcellular features
Michael Lynch,
Distinguished Professor ,
Dept. of Biology,
Indiana University Bloomington ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
TBA
Dr. Charles Lawrence,
NASA JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
Oscillatory modes of quarks in baryons for 3 quark flavors - u, d, s
Peter Minkowski,
ITEP, Univ of Bern,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Kleigel Lectures in Planetary Science
Building a Stratigraphic Column on the Road to Yellowknife Bay, Mars Science Laboratory, Gale Crater, Mars (Katie Stack); Formation of Boxwork Structures on Mount Sharp, Gale Crater, Mars (Kirsten Siebach)
Katie Stack,
Graduate Student,
Geology,
Caltech,
Kirsten Siebach,
Graduate Student,
Geology,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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4:00pm
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Minding the microbiome: how a commensal gut bacterium treats autism-related symptoms in mice
Everhart Lecture Series
Elaine Hsiao,
Post-Doc,
Biology,
Caltech,